HOUGHTON — Chloe Kannon, director of EUP (Eastern UP) Solidarity, spoke at a public meeting Wednesday at the Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Houghton. The presentation was sponsored by a local grassroots group called AWAVE (Advocates for those Without A Voice Everywhere). Hancock City Council Member Lisa McKenzie was among those who attended the meeting.

Kannon warned that local government needs to create ordinances to prevent or regulate the development of data mining centers here because of their potential to warm Lake Superior, create noise pollution and raise the cost of electricity.

AI and cryptocurrency companies have their eyes on Lake Superior, she said. They need water, land and power to develop their large data mining centers, and she warned that they can exploit

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